Day 4 -- Cayman Islands

The advantage of the Disney Cruise is that they allow you to leave the boat while your child is in their class. SCORE! Kaci was only going to be able to sit in the boat as she was too little to do Stingray City or snorkel so she stayed with Mickey and the gang while we headed into Cayman. It was REALLY WINDY and not as warm as we would have liked --although it is hard to complain about 70 degrees instead of 80, especially when Colorado is getting pounded by snow while we are away.  

Stingray City is a sandbar in the middle of the ocean that stingrays live on. The boats bring you out and feed the rays and let you touch them pet them etc. We had done it a couple of years ago and it was a blast. Perfect water, no waves, tonz of stingrays. Not today. The water was choppy. Chase couldn't even touch the bottom of the sandbar and not as many stingrays. I think the kids still had fun but it wasn't as cool as before. The pictures aren't that great because I had to take them from the boat as the water was too deep to take the camera in to the water like last time.  

Here are some pictures from our cruise in May 2007.  They are so much cooler.  Here is grandma getting massaged by a stingray.

Jason even kissed a stingray and he got 7 years of luck.

Here are Tami and Mike holding the ray.
Okay back to our cruise. The highlight for Chase was spotting all of the iguanas on the sea walls.
After Stingray City, we headed out to the reef for some snorkeling. The kids thought it was pretty cool but the water was really choppy and the current was taking you far away so you were exhausted swimming back. This is Jason and Jackson.
Here is Jason and Kaylee.
Grandpa, Jason and Chase riding on the boat.  Check out the beautiful blue water!
Here are Kaylee, Jackson and Grandma. They were cold after snorkeling.
Overall it was a fun day. Kaci would have been miserable in the wind and the boat so I was glad that she stayed on the boat. When I got back, Belle was doing story time in her class so she didn't even miss us and she made me wait until Belle was done before I could pick her up.